particular negative

American  

noun

Logic.

1. a proposition of the form “Some S is not P.” O

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Example Sentences

With depression, the brain can get stuck in a rut and locked into a particular negative way of thinking, he said.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2022

The only weakness perhaps is that your star player and perhaps least imposing defensive player, Steph Curry, is the one chasing Westbrook around, but I still think the positives outweigh that particular negative.

From Slate • May 23, 2016

In logical language, in order to disprove a "universal affirmative," it is enough to prove its contradictory, which is a "particular negative."

From A Tangled Tale by Frost, A. B. (Arthur Burdett)

Neither of the premisses can be a particular negative.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

The marking and storing of negatives in this way save hours of time spent in searching for some particular negative.

From Harper's Round Table, July 2, 1895 by Various